One hour into Angry Astronauts livestream there was a readout of a successful touchdown of the Indian lunar lander. It successfully landed at the moon’s south pole. Congratulations to India which joins the USA, China and Soviet Union as countries that had successful unmanned lunar landing missions to the moon. The Chandrayaan programme (Indian Lunar …
Russia has reported an “abnormal situation on its moon-bound Luna-25 spacecraft. Roscosmos, said on Saturday that the spacecraft ran into unspecified trouble while trying to enter a pre-landing orbit and that its specialists were analyzing the situation. “During the operation, an abnormal situation occurred onboard the automatic station, which did not allow the manoeuvre to …
Anticipating a burgeoning cislunar and lunar economy of scientific research and commercial development in the coming decade, DARPA is soliciting innovative and revolutionary technical approaches to chart a vision and path toward an optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure for peaceful U.S. and international use. “Just like DARPA’s foundational node of ARPANET grew into the sprawling …
Rolls-Royce is working on a Micro-Reactor program to develop nuclear energy technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on the Moon. The UK Space Agency provided £2.9 million of new funding for the project which will deliver an initial demonstration of a UK lunar modular nuclear reactor. This follows a …
China is planning dozens of missions to the moon to first build a research base and then convert it into a multifunctional international moonbase. They plan to employ 3D printing and production of bricks from the lunar regolith. More than 100 researchers from domestic universities, research institutes and space contractors took part in the Extraterrestrial …
NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is returning on September 24, 2023 with 250 grams of the Bennu asteroid. The samples were collected in 2020 but it has taken this long for the mission to return. China will attempt to collect the first samples from the far side of the moon next year with its Chang’e 6 mission. …
NASA announced they were working with SpaceX to make SpaceX Starships into Space Stations. The SpaceX Starship has more volume than the International Space Station. Ercx Space and Smallstars have used computer rendering and design to make detailed interiors of SpaceX Starship. SpaceX has said that in the future each SpaceX Starship could hold up …
There was a conference discussion on moon and Mars space development. JAXA described making a 300 kg unmanned rover for the South Pole of the moon. JAXA will then make an 11 ton manned rover for the Artemis project. NASA Talked about Artemis and DARPA talked about DRACO leap ahead nuclear propulsion SpaceX senior director …
Here is the NASA Moon-to Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technologies (MMPACT) Overview. NASA’s goal is to develop, deliver, and demonstrate on-demand capabilities to protect astronauts and create infrastructure on the lunar surface via construction of landing pads, habitats, shelters, roadways, and blast shields using lunar regolith-based materials. ICON Build is the primary commercial developer of …
Blue Origin and its National Team partners will develop and fly both a lunar lander that can make a precision landing anywhere on the Moon’s surface and a cislunar transporter. NASA has awarded a NextSTEP-2 Appendix P Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) contract to Blue Origin. Blue Origin’s National Team partners include Lockheed Martin, Draper, Boeing, …
NASA has awarded Blue Origin a $3 billion moon human landing system (HLS) contract. Blue moon lander is different than Glenn, Glenn refuels it and then the lander will take things from Gateway to lunar surface. Lockheed Martin vehicle goes from LEO to Gateway. The Blue Origin landers will stay at the Gateway orbit when …